This study discusses the problems and challenges faced by the Indian Women since ancient days. In Vedic age, the women were declared to be innately unfit for independence. Manu said, ‘father protects her in childhood, husband protects her in youth, sons protect her in old age; a woman is never ft for independence’. For centuries they have been subject to torture, mal-treatment and all sorts of mis-behaviour. Western impact influenced the Indian social-system ...